Reply #8: That's sad.

[wysingm]

In the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain the characters Huck and Jim had to raft up river towards Cairo, Illinois so Jim could no longer be a slave.

May 1

CAIRO, IL (KTVI-FOX2now.com)— The entire town of Cairo, Illinois is being evacuated as the flooding Mississippi and Ohio Rivers creeps in. Mayor Judson Childs ordered the city's 2,800 residents to leave by midnight and Illinois National Guard troops went door to door with law enforcers to enforce the mayor's "mandatory" order.

Emergency management workers and city engineers say the largest sand boil they have ever seen is compromising the levee protecting the city.

Thunderstorms dumped rain overnight on the already waterlogged region, and water levels hit a record along the Ohio River early Sunday. According to the National Weather Service, at 4 a.m. Sunday, the Ohio River topped a 1937 record of 59.50 feet by reaching 59.59 feet in Cairo.

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-mandatory-evacuations-cairo-il-levee-flooding-050111,0,194399.story?track=rss